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Friday, 24 March 2017

Vale Colin Dexter (1930-2017)

Colin Dexter with his Imperial Good Companion 4

portable typewriter in Oxford in 1977.

Inspector Morse creator Colin Dexter has died in Oxford, England, aged 86. Born Norman Colin Dexter at Stamford, Lincolnshire, Dexter was a crime fiction novelist who wrote the Inspector Morse series of books between 1975-99.He began writing mysteries
in 1972 during a family holiday: "We were in a little guest house halfway
between Caernarfon and Pwllheli [in Wales]. It was a Saturday and it was raining - it's not
unknown for it to rain in North Wales. The children were moaning ... I was
sitting at the kitchen table with nothing else to do, and I wrote the first few
paragraphs of a potential detective novel." Last Bus to Woodstock was
published in 1975 and introduced the character of Inspector Morse, an irascible
detective whose penchants for cryptic crosswords, English literature, cask ale and Wagner reflect Dexter's own enthusiasms.

Kia Ora!

Tapping gingerly. Sunday morning, coming down.
Might be my third or fourth attempt to establish a blog. Steeled to make it work this time. All about typewriters. Typewriters in Australia. Ergo, "oz.Typewriter", something a bit different. Please enjoy.